Imperial Woman
Pearl S. Buck
432 pages, Paperback
ISBN: 0426128885
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Language: English
Publish: January 1, 1973
AsiaAsian LiteratureChinaClassicsFictionHistoricalHistorical FictionLiteratureNobel PrizeNovels
A accurate portrayal of Tzu Hsi from available resources and the memory of how Chinese women felt about her. She was the Imperial woman. Good and evil mangled in her, but always in her rook dimensioned. She resisted modern change is long as she could, for she believed that the old was better than the new. When she saw change was Arab inevitable, she accepted it with grace but an unchanged heart.